Deutsche Lufthansa AG, commonly recognised as Lufthansa is the biggest airline in Europe, in terms of fleet size, overall passengers and revenue. It is a German airline that operates flights to a total of 215 destinations, 18 of which are domestic (within Germany) and the remaining 197 destinations are spread across 78 different countries across Europe, Asia, Africa and the Americas. Lufthansa have a fleet of 287 aircrafts that fly all over the world. In 2012, the Lufthansa Group carried over 103 million passengers.Lufthansa have been struggling to recoup earnings that had been lost during a series of pilot strikes that occurred last month. These strikes caused 3,800 flights to be cancelled resulting in an operating loss of 190 million euros. The three full days of strikes involved a total of 5,400 Lufthansa pilots and it was estimated to have affected around 425,000 passengers. According to the Lufthansa Flight Cancellation policy, a passenger is not entitled to claim compensation if the cancellation or delay was due to an extraordinary circumstance. An extraordinary circumstance is an unavoidable occurrence out of the airline’s control. Examples include bad weather, security breaches and risks, political instability or strikes in addition to unexpected flight safety shortcomings. However, pre-announced strikes should in fact not be considered as an extraordinary circumstance. In this scenario, a strike of this magnitude is seen as an extraordinary circumstance as it was out of Lufthansa’s control. Passengers simply have to accept the fact that this caused many flight disruptions including cancellations, re-routings and heavy delays. These strikes have seriously affected Lufthansa in terms of the company’s reputation.
According to EC Regulation 261/2004, passengers have no right to flight delay compensation (Lufthansa) if they were informed of the cancellation at least 14 days before the scheduled date of departure. Lufthansa were able to cope with the pilot strikes for the flights within Germany, as they were able to issue passengers with rail tickets. Passengers also had the option to cancel their flights in order to receive a full refund. However, for long-distance and international flights it proved to be more difficult. Lufthansa were able to transfer passengers on flights with other airlines, but this could only be done for a fraction of the flights.
If you feel that you are entitled to Lufthansa flight compensation, contact Blueway Limited (www.flightdelayrefunds.com) today! Blueway will be able to check the validity of your claim to see whether you are entitled to claim compensation. This could entitle you to compensation of anything between 250 and 600 euros. If you simply want to put your mind at ease, log onto Blueway Limited user-friendly website, enter some basic information regarding the flight and Blueway will take over from there. There really is nothing to lose by doing this, as it will only take two minutes of your time.